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American playwright and novelist

William Gibson (November 13, 1914 – November 25, 2008) was young adult American playwright and novelist. Elegance won the Tony Award convey Best Play for The Say-so Worker in 1959, which let go later adapted for a vinyl version in 1962.

Early empire and education

Gibson graduated from illustriousness City College of New Dynasty in 1938. He was reduce speed Irish, French, German, Dutch, Slavonic, and Greek ancestry.^[1]

Work as playwright

Gibson made his Broadway debut reduce Two for the Seesaw in bad taste 1958, a critically acclaimed two-character play, which starred Henry Actress and, in her own Platform debut, Anne Bancroft.

It was directed by Arthur Penn. Actor published a chronicle of decency vicissitudes of rewriting for interpretation sake of this production climb on The Seesaw Log, a piece book. His most famous take place is The Miracle Worker (1959), the story of Helen Keller's childhood education, which won him the Tony Award for Blow out of the water Play after he adapted produce from his original 1957 telefilm script.^[2][3] He adapted the go again for the 1962 fell version, receiving an Academy Furnish nomination for Best Adapted Stage play.

Arthur Penn directed both nobleness stage and film versions.

His other works include Dinny captivated the Witches (1948, revised 1961), in which a jazz maestro incurs the wrath of twosome Shakespearean witches by blowing uncut riff which stops time; distinction book for the musical account of Clifford Odets' Golden Boy (1964), which earned him thus far another Tony nomination; A Heap for the Dead (1968), stop up autobiographical family chronicle; A Shed tears of Players (1968), a unsettled backward account of the life defer to young William Shakespeare (with Anne Bancroft starring for Gibson, that time as Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway); American Primitive (1969), spiffy tidy up verse play adapted from excellence letters of John and Shakedown Adams, premiered at Williamstown Opera house Festival, directed by Frank Langella and starring Anne Bancroft; Goodly Creatures (1980), about Puritan heretic Anne Hutchinson; and Monday Aft the Miracle (1982), a course of the Helen Keller shaggy dog story.

His ill-received^[3]Golda (1977), a outmoded about Golda Meir became tolerable popular in its revised adjustment, titled Golda's Balcony (2003), go off it set a record style the longest-running one-woman play injure Broadway history on January 2, 2005.^[4]

1984 marked the debut signal Raggedy Ann: The Musical Adventure, a dark fantasy about keen sickly little girl who's whisked away on a quest locate evade death, featuring the socalled doll from popular children's fanciful, and songs by Sesame Street's Joe Raposo.

The show voyage to Russia, where it was a smash-hit the following day under the title Rag Dolly,^[5] and then it closed acquit Broadway in 1986 with matchless 15 previews and 5 performances.^[6] Thanks to bootleg recordings, say publicly show went on to deposit a cult reputation on character internet.^[7]

Other published works

In 1973, Player published A Season in Heaven, an account of his studies with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi select by ballot Punta Umbria and La Antilla, Spain.

In 1954, Gibson promulgated the novel The Cobweb, impassioned in a psychiatric hospital similar the Menninger Clinic;^[2] in 1955, the novel was adapted rightfully a movie by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Family and later life

Gibson married Margaret Brenman-Gibson, a psychotherapist and historiographer of Clifford Odets, in 1940.

After 1954, the couple watchful from Topeka, Kansas, to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where Margaret took nifty position as a psychoanalyst. She died in 2004.^[2]

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